Earthquakes in Human History : : The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions / / Donald Theodore Sanders, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer.
On November 1, 1755--All Saints' Day--a massive earthquake struck Europe's Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy day. Earthquakes in Human History tells the story of that calamity and other epic earthquakes...
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Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Earthquakes in Human History : The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions / Donald Theodore Sanders, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021] ©2004 1 online resource (304 p.) : 39 halftones. 5 line illus. 2 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Conversions -- 1 Earthquakes: Origins and Consequences -- 2 In the Holy Land: Earthquakes and the Hand of God -- 3 The Decline of Ancient Sparta: A Tale of Hoplites, Helots, and a Quaking Earth -- 4 Earthquakes in England: Echoes in Religion and Literature -- 5 The Great Lisbon Earthquake and the Axiom "Whatever Is, Is Right" -- 6 New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811: The Once and Future Disaster -- 7 Earthquake, Fire, and Politics in San Francisco -- 8 Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake: "Hell Let Loose on Earth" -- 9 Peru in 1970: Chaos in the Andes -- 10 The 1972 Managua Earthquake: Catalyst for Revolution -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Notes and References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star On November 1, 1755--All Saints' Day--a massive earthquake struck Europe's Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy day. Earthquakes in Human History tells the story of that calamity and other epic earthquakes. The authors, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders, recapture the power of their previous book, Volcanoes in Human History. They vividly explain the geological processes responsible for earthquakes, and they describe how these events have had long-lasting aftereffects on human societies and cultures. Their accounts are enlivened with "ations from contemporary literature and from later reports. In the chaos following the Lisbon quake, government and church leaders vied for control. The Marquês de Pombal rose to power and became a virtual dictator. As a result, the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order lost much of its influence in Portugal. Voltaire wrote his satirical work Candide to refute the philosophy of "optimism," the belief that God had created a perfect world. And the 1755 earthquake sparked the search for a scientific understanding of natural disasters. Ranging from an examination of temblors mentioned in the Bible, to a richly detailed account of the 1906 catastrophe in San Francisco, to Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, to the Peruvian earthquake in 1970 (the Western Hemisphere's greatest natural disaster), this book is an unequaled testament to a natural phenomenon that can be not only terrifying but also threatening to humankind's fragile existence, always at risk because of destructive powers beyond our control. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Earthquakes Environmental aspects. Earthquakes History. Earthquakes Social aspects. Science and civilization. Seismology History. NATURE / Earthquakes & Volcanoes. bisacsh Sanders, Donald Theodore, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691234205?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691234205 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691234205.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Conversions -- 1 Earthquakes: Origins and Consequences -- 2 In the Holy Land: Earthquakes and the Hand of God -- 3 The Decline of Ancient Sparta: A Tale of Hoplites, Helots, and a Quaking Earth -- 4 Earthquakes in England: Echoes in Religion and Literature -- 5 The Great Lisbon Earthquake and the Axiom "Whatever Is, Is Right" -- 6 New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811: The Once and Future Disaster -- 7 Earthquake, Fire, and Politics in San Francisco -- 8 Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake: "Hell Let Loose on Earth" -- 9 Peru in 1970: Chaos in the Andes -- 10 The 1972 Managua Earthquake: Catalyst for Revolution -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Notes and References -- Index |
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